4 Tips To Help Stay Reconnected With Your Ex-Best Friend
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4 Tips To Help Stay Reconnected With Your Ex-Best Friend

Reconnecting with an ex best friend will be hard but worth it.

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4 Tips To Help Stay Reconnected With Your Ex-Best Friend
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Friendship can last a lifetime. Everyone has that one friend you’ve shared everything with. They know all your secrets. Secrets you don’t even tell your sister. Their family is basically your family. They’re that one person you’ll be growing old with still having everything in common, but then something happens. You have an argument and you don’t speak to them ever again. What was the reason you two stopped talking? Thinking about it now, makes you realize what you were fighting about not worth it. Or even events such as after graduation. You go your separate ways and lose touch, you try to make it work, but it gets hard. Here are some tips and advice on how to reconnect with your ex-best friend.

#1 Disconnected

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Sometimes after high school or college, you tend to go your own ways and focus on your future, but if you really think your relationship is worth keeping, you make it work. Have a few days where you can meet up for coffee and talk about your week or what classes you’re taking, stay motivated to keep the connection going.

#2 Memories

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Thinking about the past can hurt if it’s good or bad. Remembering those fun days you had made you realize if you can go back in time and fix what happened to save your friendship, you still can. Reminding them what you had could help fix the situation.

#3 Reconnect

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If you miss them. Call them. Text them. The first step is reaching out. Show them you miss them.

#4 Forgive

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It takes two to forgive. You both have to move on and forget about what happened in the past. Communicate and listen to one another to let each other know how you feel. The truth hurts, but truth can resolve any situation. If you have something to say, now is the time.

#5 Time

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Speaking of time. It will take time for things to go back to the way they were. Until then, be sensitive to your friendship because you don’t want to say or do anything to ruin what you have worked for. If they made friends for the time you were gone, don’t be jealous, don’t be clingy either, just be happy you are both are in good terms.

Friendship can last a lifetime, if you lost connection with someone, you can always reconnect with them if the friendship is there.
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